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NOW ME

BySowmya

Mar 8, 2020 #1ACGrids, #Aashwina Mouli, #Amrita Majumdar, #Anjali Doney Varghese, #Bharati Shankaran Hemmady, #Cherie Maharam, #Crosswords, #Cryptics, #Debasmita Basu, #Debbie Manber Kupfer, #Deepa Jhaveri, #Faten Ismail, #Heidi Schroeder, #Juhi Saklani, #Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, #Mona Sogal, #Neelima Rai, #Phoenix Griffin Newton, #Rhiannon Vivian -Bolt, #Shuchismita Upadhyay, #Sowmya Ramkumar, #Supriya Mithal, #Theme, #Tulika Das, #Usha Srinivasan, #Viveca Bhatkal, #Women's day

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1ACross is happy to present “Now Me”, a special puzzle put together by Supriya Mithal, along with the 1AC Women power,  exclusively for our solvers.

I’d suggested to Supriya that we could do an “all-women” community grid at the 1ACross blog and FB group to celebrate Women’s day. Supriya took the idea on board and using a grid constructed by Mona Sogal she has brought together the setting skills of a total of 23 women setters.

Answers can be submitted by anyone who wishes to do so on or before EOD 18th March 2020.  Annotations for the puzzle will be discussed at 1ACross on Thursday, March 19, 2020. 

Here’s the link to the Interactive Version. If you need it, you can get a PDF, by opening the grid and then choosing File, Print and Print to PDF.

What a spectacular effort indeed! Hope you all enjoy it..

Here is the full list of setters (in Alphabetical order): Aashwina Mouli, Amrita Majumdar, Anjali Doney Varghese , Bharati Shankaran Hemmady, Cherie Maharam, Debasmita Basu, Debbie Manber Kupfer, Deepa Jhaveri, Faten Ismail, Heidi Schroeder, Juhi Saklani, Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, Mona Sogal, Neelima Rai, Phoenix Griffin Newton, Rhiannon Vivian -Bolt, Sarsa Parilla, Shuchismita Upadhyay, Sowmya Ramkumar, Supriya Mithal, Tulika Das, Usha Srinivasan and Viveca Bhatkal.

By Sowmya

Sowmya is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and independent financial consultant based in the Middle East (Bahrain). She is a puzzle editor at Amuselabs. She has set over 1,300 crosswords for various publications including over 1000 mini crosswords, cryptic crosswords (under the pseudonym Hypatia for The Hindu) and themed crosswords for Cat.a.lyst (part of The Hindu Businessline). Sowmya runs the Facebook group 1Across where seasoned cruciverbalists interact while setting and solving clues. She has published three compilations of crosswords viz Cryptic Crossroads Volumes 1, 2 and 3. She Tweets cryptic clues daily @somsram

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3 thoughts on “NOW ME”

  2. Raj Jayaram

    Seven themed clues: All famous women
    Oprah, Winfrey, Angelou (Maya), Parks (Rosa), Earhart (Amelia), Curie (Marie), Cleopatra

    Phrase related to the theme:
    Break the glass ceiling

    Now me: RA of AMAZING WOMEN

    Top 3 clues: RIGID, YACHT, REPRO

    Overall quality of puzzle: 8

    Solutions:

    Across:
    Oprah, Apparatus, Winfrey, Angelou, Loony, Sated, Yob, Ion, Curie, Bronc, Night, Parks, Cue, Bin, Prong, Chimp, Earhart, Atheist, Killdeers, Magma

    Down:
    Orwellian, Rundown, Her, Pea, Rigid, Tally-ho, Squab, Yacht, Their, Repro, Basic, Cleopatra, General, Ceiling, Break, Plaid, Glass, The, Hem

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